Is that the ‘jam-on-the-lower-shelf’ Yarbrough? Nope.

Dallas newcomer Sean Hubbard got what buzz there was on the Democratic side of the U.S. Senate race, and some expected he might make a runoff with former state lawmaker Paul Sadler.

The fresh way Hubbard talked about how his personal story fit with his candidacy caught the attention of folks like Democratic consultant Harold Cook and the honchos at the Burnt Orange Report.

But when the dust settled Tuesday, it wasn’t Hubbard in a runoff with Sadler.

It was retired educator Grady Yarbrough of San Antonio, described by the AP as “a perennial candidate who has run as a Democrat and a Republican in previous elections.”

Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson chalked it up to the place that the late former U.S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough still holds in Democrats’ very fiber although his time in the Senate was decades ago and his name is spelled slightly differently.

Yarborough’s signature line: “Put the jam on the bottom shelf, so the little people can reach it.”

Jillson called the situation “sad” for Sadler.

“Sadler, ten years ago, was a player in the Texas Legislature and has been doing credible work since then,” Jillson said. “But Democrats have forgotten, if they ever knew, his name. And Yarbrough running second, in my view, is nothing more than a 40-year-old accidental synapse firing of Ralph Yarborough.”